Spbing-skate



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL LOVEJOY, OF LOVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.`

SPRING-SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL LovEJoY, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invent-ed a new and useful Improvement in Spring-Skates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and eXact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings'and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a joint at the heel and toe of the runner of the skate, which joints form a connection between the runner and the springs-the springs being fastened to the wood or stock of the skate.

Figure l, represents a plan or top view of the skate. Fig. 2, represents a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3, represents a cross. vertical section through the heel joint.

Similar letters of reference in each of the several figures indicate like parts.

A represents the wood or stock of the skate, which is made to receive the foot of the wearer.

B is a metallic plate, shaped to receive the heel of the wearer and retain it in place.

C, is the runner, which may be in any of the approved forms-either straight or rocker style. At each end of this runner, a joint is formed by means of the rivet D or D passing through it and through ears made on the ends of the springs E and E. The springs are then fastened to the stock of the skate as represented, or in any other substantial manner.

The springs are made and arranged in 27,137, dated February 14, 1860,

such a shape that when a weight presses them down, they will bend, without drawing the two ends of the runner toward each other, and thus avoid a tendency to break the runner by bending it back and forth.

The springs themselves are made without any sharp or sudden curves, and will allow of all the motion that is necessary to insure perfect ease to the foot, without any danger of being broken by constant action: Whereas, skates with springs formed by a continuous runner, are obliged to have sharp curves to them, which break in a short time upon being submitted to common use. My forni and arrangement of spring is also superior in usefulness, because it cannot be thrown out sidewise when the skater is in the act of striking out, thus avoiding the uncertainty of position and action which springs skates of other forms give rise to.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the runner C, the joints D and D at the heel and toe thereof and the springs E and E which connect said joints and runner with the stock of the skate-for the purpose and substantially as described.

In'witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this twenty-first day of January A. D. 1860.

ALBERT LovEJoY, O. E. CUSHING. 

